Stories from Friday, April 28, 2006

Antoinette Watson Hall, sister of Mary Howard of Shelbyville, died Wednesday at home in Birmingham, Ala., after an extended illness. There will be a private memorial service in Birmingham.

Two annexation requests were pulled from the Shelbyville Planning Commission's agenda Thursday and other requests were approved. One request was from owner W.J. Crowell for 126.07 acres of land on U.S. 41-A North to be annexed into the corporate limits...

Three men indicted on drug charges were arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Court at Chattanooga before Judge Susan Lee. Eric Ryan Hill, 26, and Domashaun Donnell Davis, 27, both of Shelbyville, and Andre Rashad Sutton, 29, of Chattanooga were remanded to federal custody in a Chattanooga facility...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee, meeting Monday night, heard a request from the United Veterans Council to close two parking spaces in front of the new Bedford County Veterans Memorial. According to Roy Bartlette, the change is being requested so that vehicles driving by can get an unobstructed view of the monument. Another parking space next to the two closed spaces would be realigned slightly and marked as handicapped parking...

The dispute between the city and county over taxation issues leaves Bedford County Board of Commissioners' budget and finance committee unsure of its options for funding a request for new fire trucks for Volunteer Fire Services Inc. Finance committee members had hoped they could make a down payment on the trucks from the proceeds from sale of Bedford County Medical Center. ...

A federal court jury in Winchester has issued a verdict in favor of Bedford County sheriff's officers who were sued by a man seeking $6.15 million in punitive and compensatory damages as a result of his arrest in August 2002. The seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated one hour and 25 minutes on Wednesday and delivered its conclusion that Mandel T. ...

Su Casa Ranch, tucked up in the hills outside of Wartrace and Bell Buckle next to the Coffee County line, is home to 30 horses of the Paso Fino breed which will be shown this weekend at Calsonic Arena. The ranch's owners, L.R. and Moria Judas Smith, are both instructors at The Webb School. Moria is heavily involved with the Tennessee Valley Paso Fino Horse Association, serving as vice-president...

Shelbyville Central earned the right to host the District 8-AAA tennis tournament, which began this morning at H.V. Griffin Park, by virtue of their first-place regular-season finish. The Golden Eagles enter the tournament with an impressive two first place and two second place seeds in the four divisions...

Shelbyville Central fell 4-2 to host Centennial in a non-district soccer match Thursday evening. The game was knotted at 2-all at the intermission. "Let's just say this wasn't one of our better efforts," Shelbyville coach Neal Gordon said. Andrew Gordon and Seth Jamison scored for the Eagles (5-3-2)...

Cascade finished up the non-district portion of their schedule with a 3-1 win at Huntland on Thursday afternoon. Sara Wright, Kate Prince and Tiffany Gibbs each banged out a pair of singles as part of an eight-hit attack by the Lady Champions (14-8). They jumped on the board early with a first-inning run and added a couple more tallies in the top of the second...

The cremated remains of Carl Benjamin Murrell, 85, of Shelbyville, who died Wednesday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center, will be buried at sea under the United States Navy Moruary Affairs Burial At Sea Program. Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is in charge of local arrangements...